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Do not count soft-deleted pods for scaling purposes in HPA controller
**What this PR does / why we need it**:
The metrics of "soft-deleted" pods in general to be deleted should probably not matter for scaling purposes, since they'll be gone "soon", whether they're nodelost or just normally delete.
As long as soft-deleted pods still exist, they prevent normal scale up.
**Which issue(s) this PR fixes** *(optional, in `fixes #<issue number>(, fixes #<issue_number>, ...)` format, will close the issue(s) when PR gets merged)*:
Fixes https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/62845
**Special notes for your reviewer**:
**Release note**:
```release-note
Stop counting soft-deleted pods for scaling purposes in HPA controller to avoid soft-deleted pods incorrectly affecting scale up replica count calculation.
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